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Media Resource Guide

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Staff Resources

Jo Ann Andera, director of special events/Texas Folklife Festival

Topics: Texas Folklife Festival; "how-to" of event management, production and evaluation; resource information about San Antonio ethnic communities

Work phone: (210) 458-2249
Cell phone: (210) 865-9984

Mary Grace Ketner, educational specialist

Topics: Storytelling

Ketner is the ITC's resident storyteller and producer of two storytelling audiotapes ("Many Tricksters and "YIKES! Scary Stories from the Texas Folklife Festival"). She directs the "Midwinter Tales" series and the Texas Storytelling Youth Olympics competition. Co-founder of the San Antonio Storytellers Association, she presents workshops and programs of world folk tales and legends and maintains a listing of other area storytellers at her Web site.

Work phone: (210) 458-2253
Home phone: (210) 271-0628
e-mail: mketner@utsa.edu

Dennis Medina, special collections librarian

Topics: Books (antiquarian and rare); gay and lesbian history in Texas (Chicano/a, Latino/a); historical documents and manuscripts, special collections; history (Texas).

Work phone: (210) 458-5988
e-mail: dmedina@utsa.edu

Gerrianne Schaad, archivist

Topics: Archives (UTSA).

Work phone: (210) 458-2385